Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Republic: Book III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.
(a) Glaucon's own virtue.
(b) Justice as it relates to an entire city's population.
(c) Virtue as it is demanded of the city's leaders.
(d) Justice as it relates to a small family.

2. In Ion, Socrates concludes that Ion's ability to memorize poetry is which of the following?
(a) An art that he learned from others.
(b) Divinely inspired, just like the very poets whom Ion recites.
(c) Proof that he knows what it actually means.
(d) Not proof that he knows what it actually means.

3. How does Socrates refute Polemarchus' definition of justice?
(a) Socrates shows Polemarchus that every man is intrinsically free, regardless of the law.
(b) Socrates shows Polemarchus that stealing from the rich is unjust.
(c) Socrates asserts that doing evil, even to an evil man, makes the doer unjust.
(d) Socrates reasons that it is impossible to determine what is fair in every situation.

4. In Socrates' ideal nation, literature which depicts the afterlife should depict it as___________.
(a) Positive.
(b) Mysterious.
(c) Foreboding.
(d) Negative.

5. When Ion admits to Socrates that he can only recite one poet's work well, Socrates is puzzled by which of the following?
(a) How Ion considers himself a philosopher.
(b) Ion's desire to speak with Socrates about his work.
(c) Ion's hesitation to answer questions about his family.
(d) How an artistic skill can be limited in its expertise.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are leaders chosen in Socrates' ideal republic?

2. What definition of virtue do Meno and Socrates borrow from "the poets"?

3. In his first argument, Glaucon asserts that is better to __________.

4. What is the major point of Aristophanes' speech?

5. Why does Glaucon continue conversing with Socrates?

(see the answer key)

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